Interpretation as abduction

  • Authors:
  • Jerry R. Hobbs;Mark Stickel;Paul Martin;Douglas Edwards

  • Affiliations:
  • Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International;Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International;Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International;Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International

  • Venue:
  • ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

An approach to abductive inference developed in the TACITUS project has resulted in a dramatic simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized. Its use in solving the local pragmatics problems of reference, compound nominals, syntactic ambiguity, and metonymy is described and illustrated. It also suggests an elegant and thorough integration of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.